nuclear energy

U.S. President Obama shakes hands with China's President Xi in Beijing
Earth February 3, 2015

US And China To Build A Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor

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According to Fortune, the US is helping China to build a molten salt nuclear reactor.  Due to a lack of funding and political will,…


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Blog, Earth December 30, 2014

Raw Science’s Top 5 Sci/Tech to Follow in 2015

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THE LIST 5. ANONYMOUS MESSAGING APPS Have you heard of FireChat? It’s an anonymous messaging app from the San Francisco startup Open Garden. Users…


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Earth December 25, 2014

All I Want For XMAS Is Nuclear Fusion

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The holy grail of energy production on Earth is a self-sustaining nuclear fusion reaction, the same process that creates energy within stars (the sun…


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Earth, Raw Media November 6, 2014

Dr. Frank Shu: An Astrophysicist Offers An Outsider’s View on the Future of Energy

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Dr. Frank Shu is beaming. “That’s it!” he smiles broadly, extending a hand to a colleague. The excitement is palatable in the sweat-soaked tropical…


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Earth, Raw Media October 8, 2014

Carbon-Neutral Coal in 10 minutes?

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Dr. Frank Shu and his team of researchers at the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) have one of the largest BioChar…


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Earth, Raw Media September 15, 2014

Dr. Helen Calidcott on the role of media and the global threat of nuclear technology

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      Since the 1980 Three Mile Island nuclear accident, Helen Caldicott an Australian physician and author, has dedicated her life to anti-nuclear…


A view of the abandoned city of Prypiat, near the Chernobyl nuclear power. PC Thomas Sheridan
Earth September 11, 2014

THORIUM MOLTEN-SALT: The Best Reactor You’ve Never Heard Of

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Molten Thorium Salts: Nuclear Power For The Future? by Donald Goldsmith   For sixty years, the use of nuclear energy generation to provide clean,…